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With the Sacramento Kings it’s not always about basketball, which seems a little odd. But over the last few years the focus has been on the owners (the Maloof Brothers) or the gasoline-and-fire personality of angry big man DeMarcus Cousins.
Pass, pick, cut to the hoop, layup. Play defense. Do it again. And again. Every game.
The pressure builds and builds and builds on Kobe Bryant’s 34-year-old shoulders as the Lakers stumble through the first part of the season.
The Warriors come in to this one with four straight road victories and seven wins in their last eight games, but – and it’s a but that would make Sir Mix-a-Lot smile – just about all of it has been accomplished by grabbing low-hanging fruit.
We haven’t yet even hit the new year and three marquee franchises are struggling. The Heat couldn’t even get it together against the gawdawful Wizards, the Celtics can’t seem to put two good games together, and in Los Angeles Kobe Bryant is doing everything he can to keep from smacking Pau Gasol on the back of the head with a rolled-up newspaper.
In a league season filled with so many throwaway games, it’s nice to be able to check in once in a while on a matchup that has a little juice.
Pau Gasol may or may not play in this one, depending on whether the tendinitis in his ailing knees is acting up.
Other than a pair of blips on the road (two-game losing streaks in Florida and out west), the Brooklyn Nets are starting to raise a few eyebrows in the Association.
Mindful that what happens in November rarely has anything to do with what happens when snow melts in the north and real NBA basketball starts in mid-April.
The Denver Nuggets began their season with three straight losses, but they’ve begun to turn it around with back-to-back wins against the Detroit Pistons and Houston Rockets. The Utah Jazz started 2012 with a win over the Dallas Mavericks, but they quickly dropped three of their next four contests. Both teams are 2-3 on the year, and both teams face off on ESPN Friday night.
The Los Angeles Clippers are one of the teams out West vying for conference supremacy this year, but they’ve had an inconsistent start to begin the 2012-13 season. The Portland Trail Blazers are a young group looking to win off of energy and excitement, and they’ll play host to the Clippers Thursday night on TNT.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have a healthy roster to start the season, but their results have been up and down following the trade that sent James Harden to the Houston Rockets. The Chicago Bulls are without NBA megastar Derrick Rose—and will be for quite some time—yet they’ve started off the year on the right foot.
The San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Clippers are considered legitimate contenders in the Western Conference, but it is the Spurs who have started their season perfect with a 4-0 record, while the Clippers have dropped back-to-back games against fringe playoff teams this season.
The Philadelphia 76ers made a monumental move this summer sending Andre Iguodala out West in exchange for Andrew Bynum, who is arguably the best big man in the game behind Dwight Howard. The only problem? Bynum’s yet to play a single minute.
The Nets have definitely upgraded their talent over the last couple of years. However, I am still left wondering why they went after Joe Johnson and his monster contract.
The Los Angeles Lakers have started their season in underwhelming fashion following the incredible offseason that brought Dwight Howard and Steve Nash to town. Winless through two games, the Lakers are now set to host the team that shares the same building, the Los Angeles Clippers. This rivalry hasn’t always been headline-worthy on the national stage, but with both teams fighting for contention this year, their contest Friday night will be the primetime matchup on ESPN.
